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Facts

Born c.1420 • Tours • France
Died c.1481 • Tours • France
Notable Works “Madonna Surrounded by Seraphim and Cherubim”

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“Joshua and the Fall of Jericho” from Flavius Josephus' Antiquités judaïques, manuscript illuminated by Jean Fouquet, c. 1474; in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris (Ms. Fr. 247)
Charlemagne and Leo III
Medieval illumination by Jean Fouquet showing Jesus before Pontius Pilate and Caiphas, surrounded by guards, with Barabbas standing below among soldiers and craftsmen.
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Muẓaffar ʿAlī
Persian artist
Pucelle, Jean: The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux
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French artist
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Jean-Baptiste Isabey
French painter
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Paul de Limbourg
Flemish artist
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Herman de Limbourg
Flemish artist
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Jean de Limbourg
Flemish artist
Bellini, Giovanni: Saint Jerome Reading
Giovanni Bellini
Italian painter
Oil painting by Jan van Eyck showing a man in dark clothing with a large, elaborate red turban, set against a dark background.
Jan van Eyck
Netherlandish painter
Piero della Francesca: The Flagellation of Christ
Piero della Francesca
Italian painter
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Rogier van der Weyden
Netherlandish painter
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Hans Memling
Netherlandish painter
The Birth of the Virgin, fresco by Domenico Ghirlandaio, 1486–90; in the choir of Santa Maria Novella, Florence.
Domenico Ghirlandaio
Italian painter
“The Building of the Famous Castle of Khawarnaq,” miniature by Behzād, c. 1494, from the Khamseh of Neẓāmī; in the British Library (OR. MS. 6810 fol 154v)
Behzād
Persian painter
Sulṭān Muḥammad: “The Feast of Sada” in the Shāh-nāmeh
Sulṭān Muḥammad
Persian painter
Portrait of a Woman, watercolour on ivory by Anna Claypoole Peale, 1818; in the Art Institute of Chicago.
Anna Claypoole Peale
American painter
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Bichitr
Indian painter
Fassett, Cornelia Adele Strong
Cornelia Adele Strong Fassett
American painter
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Abdülcelil Levnî
Ottoman painter
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Yaḥyā ibn Maḥmūd al-Wāsiṭī
Iraqi painter
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